Reply #5: On the watch list, then. Except it's not, since they still bought guns. [View All]

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As to whether the persons deserve to be on the list, we don't know--since they exercised their rights to buy guns, unchallenged.

But it seems that what you really want is a watch list that a) actually prevents the purchase of guns but b) allows for a citizen to challenge it. Seems reasonable, and I would support......

Oh, fuck it. Of course the guns rights people won't allow any such thing. Any terrorist, suspected terrorist or actual terrorist has the constitutional right to buy guns until they actually kill a bunch of us with them.

In the meantime, adminstrative fiat is good enough for me to get searched every time I want to enter a public building, fly in a plane, and the Patriot Act searches my library and the government "mines" my data--as long as it isn't data about the guns I've bought. That gets destroyed in thirty days, thanks to our freedom loveing John Ashcroft.